Consider the telephone divide a hundred or so years ago. Imagine being an adult, having been born in the late 1800’s, and witnessing the rise of telephonic communication. Your formative years were a simpler time when there were none of those black new-fangled contraptions that everybody now shouts into. You are a telephonic immigrant. You don’t particularly care for the phone, you use it when you need to but you don’t care how it actually works, and you don’t see much use for it except as a way for people to waste time yammering with neighbors whom they could just as easily walk a few blocks to see in person!
You try to think of yourself as immune to the telephone. You don’t actually need it like some people seem to. You’ll just do things the old fashioned way, write letters daily, get on your horse or in your Model T (another damnable creation) and see people, buy things, do business like you always have. You've been just fine living and working this way all of your life.
But you suffer. A few years go by and you seem to miss out on things. People don’t understand why you just “show up” without calling first. It’s awkward. You lose money in business because your dictated mail correspondence gets to a client one week after he has already sealed a deal, by phone, with your competition. People keep using the phone more and more, communicating with a quickness and efficiency that makes you old fashioned for just staying the same.In a few years the phone becomes the standard. Offices have them, people have them in their homes, phone numbers begin to appear frequently on advertisements and on business cards. Want to order something? Call. Want to sell something? Call. Want to arrange something. Call? In fact, many people in both business and social contexts won’t even deal with you or take you seriously unless your initial contact is by phone!The pace of life is quickening thanks to the damned telephone! You become indignant and frustrated; you feel that you should be able to maintain success, productivity and meaningful social interaction without having to succumb to daily telephone use...but you can’t because the context of success, of productivity and of social interaction has changed.
So, you have a choice. You can stick to your 19th century pre-telephonic guns out of a misplaced sense of tradition, cutting your nose off in spite of your face, or you can adjust your life to fit the new telephonic age. The telephone is apparently here to stay. What are you going to do? Well?
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Consider the telephone divide a hundred or so years ago. Imagine being an adult, having been born in the late 1800’s, and witnessing the rise of telephonic communication. Your formative years were a simpler time when there were none of those black new-fangled contraptions that everybody now shouts into. You are a telephonic immigrant. You don’t particularly care for the phone, you use it when you need to but you don’t care how it actually works, and you don’t see much use for it except as a way for people to waste time yammering with neighbors whom they could just as easily walk a few blocks to see in person!
You try to think of yourself as immune to the telephone. You don’t actually need it like some people seem to. You’ll just do things the old fashioned way, write letters daily, get on your horse or in your Model T (another damnable creation) and see people, buy things, do business like you always have. You've been just fine living and working this way all of your life.
But you suffer. A few years go by and you seem to miss out on things. People don’t understand why you just “show up” without calling first. It’s awkward. You lose money in business because your dictated mail correspondence gets to a client one week after he has already sealed a deal, by phone, with your competition. People keep using the phone more and more, communicating with a quickness and efficiency that makes you old fashioned for just staying the same.In a few years the phone becomes the standard. Offices have them, people have them in their homes, phone numbers begin to appear frequently on advertisements and on business cards. Want to order something? Call. Want to sell something? Call. Want to arrange something. Call? In fact, many people in both business and social contexts won’t even deal with you or take you seriously unless your initial contact is by phone!The pace of life is quickening thanks to the damned telephone! You become indignant and frustrated; you feel that you should be able to maintain success, productivity and meaningful social interaction without having to succumb to daily telephone use...but you can’t because the context of success, of productivity and of social interaction has changed.
So, you have a choice. You can stick to your 19th century pre-telephonic guns out of a misplaced sense of tradition, cutting your nose off in spite of your face, or you can adjust your life to fit the new telephonic age. The telephone is apparently here to stay. What are you going to do? Well?